“The fact that Wikipedia edits are such a good predictor of politics strongly suggests an infosphere far more manipulated than most people recognize. That is the nature of the noosphere as the Cyberneticists craft it. It's a feature, not a bug. This is the meaning of the Matrix. This is what totalitarianism looks like, and if in all seriousness it looks sillier and sillier, that is also part of the goal. The process encourages you to pat yourself on the head for noticing. You're invited to be a player in the game.”
https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/mathews-law-predicted-kalamas-vp
https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/mathews-law-predicted-kalamas-vp
Rounding the Earth Newsletter
Mathew's Law Predicted Kamala's VP Candidate
The Information Wars Part 31
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"In the meantime, more and more companies are figuring out ways to use algorithms to set prices. If these really do enable de facto price-fixing, and manage to escape legal scrutiny, the result could be a kind of pricing dystopia in which competition to create better products and lower prices would be replaced by coordination to keep prices high and profits flowing."
https://archive.is/UcPYH
https://archive.is/UcPYH
archive.is
Is Your Rent an Antitrust Violation? - The Atlantic
archived 10 Aug 2024 14:55:18 UTC
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Forwarded from J.R.R. Tolkien
“Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?'
A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!” - The Two Towers
A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!” - The Two Towers
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"Of course, we can’t prove that the 2024 Olympic Village policies were intended to be destructive. But if, for the sake of argument, they were, how would they have been different?"
https://technoskeptical.substack.com/p/were-the-olympics-deliberately-ruined
https://technoskeptical.substack.com/p/were-the-olympics-deliberately-ruined
Technoskeptical
Were the Olympics Deliberately Ruined?
And did Mel Brooks predict part of the strategy?
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Forwarded from Raw Egg Nationalist
The Swedish government tries to hide data like these as much as possible.
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Forwarded from Today I Learned
TIL each pawn in chess had a specific name/profession based on its starting position on the board
https://ift.tt/BO38Y2d
https://ift.tt/BO38Y2d
Reddit
From the todayilearned community on Reddit: TIL each pawn in chess had a specific name/profession based on its starting position…
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"In medieval chess, as an attempt to make the pieces more interesting, each pawn was given the name of a commoner's occupation:
Gambler and other "lowlifes", also messengers (in the left-most file, that direction being literally sinister)
City guard or policeman (in front of the left-side knight, as knights trained city guards in real life)
Innkeeper (in front of the left-side bishop)
Doctor (in front of the queen)
Merchant/money changer (in front of the king)
Weaver/clerk (in front of the right-side bishop, as they worked for bishops)
Blacksmith (in front of the right-side knight, as they cared for the horses)
Worker/farmer (in front of the right-side rook, as they worked for castles).
The most famous example of this is found in the second book ever printed in the English language, The Game and Playe of the Chesse. Purportedly, this book, printed by William Caxton, was viewed to be as much a political commentary on society as a chess book."
Gambler and other "lowlifes", also messengers (in the left-most file, that direction being literally sinister)
City guard or policeman (in front of the left-side knight, as knights trained city guards in real life)
Innkeeper (in front of the left-side bishop)
Doctor (in front of the queen)
Merchant/money changer (in front of the king)
Weaver/clerk (in front of the right-side bishop, as they worked for bishops)
Blacksmith (in front of the right-side knight, as they cared for the horses)
Worker/farmer (in front of the right-side rook, as they worked for castles).
The most famous example of this is found in the second book ever printed in the English language, The Game and Playe of the Chesse. Purportedly, this book, printed by William Caxton, was viewed to be as much a political commentary on society as a chess book."
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Forwarded from Vox Day
Empire of Lies = Not the Good Guys
Andrew Anglin explains why he believes the Chinese – yes, the terrible Chi-Coms – are observably the good guys at this current juncture in the space-time continuum: The Chinese are the good guys, but it’s important to note that they are not the good guys because they want to do charity for the world out […]
https://voxday.net/2024/08/19/empire-of-lies-not-the-good-guys/
Andrew Anglin explains why he believes the Chinese – yes, the terrible Chi-Coms – are observably the good guys at this current juncture in the space-time continuum: The Chinese are the good guys, but it’s important to note that they are not the good guys because they want to do charity for the world out […]
https://voxday.net/2024/08/19/empire-of-lies-not-the-good-guys/
"Never could anyone have predicted Disney might take this approach to cinema; a live-action film of a theme-park ride that was somewhat of a comedy but was a Stephen Sommers styled adventure-horror story about love, heroism and rising to greatness."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-147530400
https://substack.com/home/post/p-147530400
Bros Krynn’s Newsletter
Twenty Years On - Analyzing Pirates of the Caribbean Curse of the Black Pearl & Its Legacy
And why it still matters
Forwarded from The Paranormies Present (🌵DOGBOT🌵 [in dub])
Extremely high difficulty levels here.
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Forwarded from Battleground (Jerm)
Let’s make this as clear as possible.
If you still believe that vaccines have any benefit, then you really don’t think critically.
https://jermwarfare.com/conversations/roman-bystrianyk-vaccine-history
If you still believe that vaccines have any benefit, then you really don’t think critically.
https://jermwarfare.com/conversations/roman-bystrianyk-vaccine-history
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Forwarded from Robin Monotti + Cory Morningstar
When someone looks like a conman, acts like a conman, and behaves like a conman, maybe they are a conman...
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2024-07-28/the-mystery-of-argentinas-gold-milei-admits-that-it-was-transferred-abroad-without-specifying-the-quantities-or-destination.html
ROBINMG 🚀
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2024-07-28/the-mystery-of-argentinas-gold-milei-admits-that-it-was-transferred-abroad-without-specifying-the-quantities-or-destination.html
ROBINMG 🚀
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"Mr Lynch sold his company Autonomy to American computing giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2011 for $11bn (£8.6bn).
"But an intense legal battle following the high-profile acquisition loomed over Mr Lynch for over a decade. He was acquitted in the US in June on multiple fraud charges, for which he had been facing two decades in jail.
"The sinking of the yacht came on the same day that Mr Lynch's co-defendant in the fraud case, Stephen Chamberlain, was confirmed by his lawyer as having died after being hit by a car in Cambridgeshire on Saturday."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k4751jrm8o
"But an intense legal battle following the high-profile acquisition loomed over Mr Lynch for over a decade. He was acquitted in the US in June on multiple fraud charges, for which he had been facing two decades in jail.
"The sinking of the yacht came on the same day that Mr Lynch's co-defendant in the fraud case, Stephen Chamberlain, was confirmed by his lawyer as having died after being hit by a car in Cambridgeshire on Saturday."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k4751jrm8o
BBC News
UK tech tycoon among six missing after yacht sinks
A total 22 people were on board the superyacht when it went down off the coast of Sicily.
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Forwarded from Cultured American
The Puritan Dress Code and the Outrage of Slashed Sleeves
The Puritans took the issue of dress very seriously. In England, the king and court set the styles, and Charles I adopted a very showy look. Slashed sleeves topped the list as the height of fashion.
In 1634, the General Court in Plymouth decried “the great, superfluous and unnecessary expenses occasioned by reason of some new and immodest fashions, as also the ordinary wearing of silver, gold and silk laces, girdles, hatbands, etc.”
Plymouth’s General Court banned lace and silver and gold thread. Further, it decreed: ‘No person either man or woman shall make or buy any slashed clothes, other than one slash in each sleeve and another in the back.'
By the 1680s, however, the Puritan dress code lost ground as wealth grew in the colonies. English fashions also exerted an even stronger pull on men and women.
Wigs and fancy dress still outraged the Puritan leaders. But their influence was waning.
The Puritans took the issue of dress very seriously. In England, the king and court set the styles, and Charles I adopted a very showy look. Slashed sleeves topped the list as the height of fashion.
In 1634, the General Court in Plymouth decried “the great, superfluous and unnecessary expenses occasioned by reason of some new and immodest fashions, as also the ordinary wearing of silver, gold and silk laces, girdles, hatbands, etc.”
Plymouth’s General Court banned lace and silver and gold thread. Further, it decreed: ‘No person either man or woman shall make or buy any slashed clothes, other than one slash in each sleeve and another in the back.'
By the 1680s, however, the Puritan dress code lost ground as wealth grew in the colonies. English fashions also exerted an even stronger pull on men and women.
Wigs and fancy dress still outraged the Puritan leaders. But their influence was waning.
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Forwarded from MurderTheMedia
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This year all 32 NFL teams will start using facial recognition to verify the identity of people entering the stadium.
This is a clip that was posted recently on the Dallas Cowboys website. It shows how easy it is to identify someone in these large crowds.
This is a clip that was posted recently on the Dallas Cowboys website. It shows how easy it is to identify someone in these large crowds.
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Forwarded from Mediterranean Man (plant ☦🇱🇧)
Palantir CEO says it's “very likely” the US will fight 🇨🇳 🇷🇺 🇮🇷 in a 3-front war; supports connoscription
«[Palantir CEO Alex Karp] thinks the United States is “very likely” to end up in a three-front war with China, Russia and Iran», writes the New York Times (August 17).
«So, he argues, we have to keep going full-tilt on autonomous weapons systems».
«“I think we’re in an age when nuclear deterrent is actually less effective because the West is very unlikely to use anything like a nuclear bomb, whereas our adversaries might,” he said. “Where you have technological parity but moral disparity, the actual disparity is much greater than people think. […] [Given that] we don’t have parity morally, they have a huge advantage.”»
«Mr. Karp said that we are “very close” to terminator robots and at the threshold of “somewhat autonomous drones and devices like this being the most important instruments of war. You already see this in Ukraine.”»
«Mr. Karp believes the Democrats need to project more [military] strength.»
«He said he would support class-based affirmative action and declared himself “pro draft”.»
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Palantir was founded in 2003 by five persons, including Karp and Peter Thiel, to resurrect the DARPA project TIA “Total/Terrorism Information Awareness”, which was suspended in late 2003. Its only client until 2008 was the CIA. Its first funder was the CIA's venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel.
Alex Karp's Jewishness is manifestly central to his activism: 1) His support for Israel is «adamantine»; «The company took out a full-page ad in The New York Times last year stating that “Palantir stands with Israel”», NYT writes. 2) Karp supports the “populist-left”; he fears fascism; when he lived in Germany, «he often thought about the young men from Iowa and Kansas who risked their lives “to free people like me” during World War II.» 3) His donations are «in multiples of 18 because it’s “in the tradition of Kabbalah”». 4) He «enjoys being a provocateur onstage and in interviews» because “I’m a Jewish, racially ambiguous dyslexic, so I can say anything”, he said.
«Palantir’s tech» is thought to have helped Israel shoot down «scores of Iranian missiles and drones in mere minutes» in April.
Palantir is thought to be behind IDF's killing algorithm, Lavender AI.
«[Palantir CEO Alex Karp] thinks the United States is “very likely” to end up in a three-front war with China, Russia and Iran», writes the New York Times (August 17).
«So, he argues, we have to keep going full-tilt on autonomous weapons systems».
«“I think we’re in an age when nuclear deterrent is actually less effective because the West is very unlikely to use anything like a nuclear bomb, whereas our adversaries might,” he said. “Where you have technological parity but moral disparity, the actual disparity is much greater than people think. […] [Given that] we don’t have parity morally, they have a huge advantage.”»
«Mr. Karp said that we are “very close” to terminator robots and at the threshold of “somewhat autonomous drones and devices like this being the most important instruments of war. You already see this in Ukraine.”»
«Mr. Karp believes the Democrats need to project more [military] strength.»
«He said he would support class-based affirmative action and declared himself “pro draft”.»
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Palantir was founded in 2003 by five persons, including Karp and Peter Thiel, to resurrect the DARPA project TIA “Total/Terrorism Information Awareness”, which was suspended in late 2003. Its only client until 2008 was the CIA. Its first funder was the CIA's venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel.
Alex Karp's Jewishness is manifestly central to his activism: 1) His support for Israel is «adamantine»; «The company took out a full-page ad in The New York Times last year stating that “Palantir stands with Israel”», NYT writes. 2) Karp supports the “populist-left”; he fears fascism; when he lived in Germany, «he often thought about the young men from Iowa and Kansas who risked their lives “to free people like me” during World War II.» 3) His donations are «in multiples of 18 because it’s “in the tradition of Kabbalah”». 4) He «enjoys being a provocateur onstage and in interviews» because “I’m a Jewish, racially ambiguous dyslexic, so I can say anything”, he said.
«Palantir’s tech» is thought to have helped Israel shoot down «scores of Iranian missiles and drones in mere minutes» in April.
Palantir is thought to be behind IDF's killing algorithm, Lavender AI.
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